Smethwick contortionist hits the bottle in Circus of Horrors at Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

MODEL Casey Morris got well and truly pickled last night.

The 19 year-old from Smethwick was squeezed into a two-foot bottle and put on show at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre.

And that was a tall order because Casey stands five foot.

The job description read ‘pickled person’ – but that’s pretty normal in The Circus Of Horrors.

Petite Casey’s contortionist skills were snapped up by the company when she auditioned last year.

Even with her double joints, Casey says it’s a tight situation.

“I have always been flexible and I’m a bit of a contortionist,” she says. “It has always been my dream to be in something like this. So when a friend told me she was going for an audition I thought I would go as well.

“All I had to do at the audition was get into a two foot high bottle. Because I am small it was easy for me. In fact, there was still room in there.

“At the end of the audition they asked me to stay back and told me they would like to try me out.

“That’s how I was offered the chance to do it at the Alex.

“There are a few people on stage doing different things. I have to get into the bottle then emerge and do a sexy pose.”

Casey’s new role last night saw her sharing the stage with demon dwarfs, flying vampires, witch doctors and voodoo acrobats in the company’s latest show Day Of The Dead.

“I have always done dancing and circus skills,” she says. “When I was 14 I used to go to a Saturday school where we learned skills like trapeze and unicycle. They closed it down after a couple of years, and I was really gutted.

“But I have kept practising and I do dancing at clubs to industrial music in the evenings. I would love it if they asked me to do more for Circus of Horrors because I’ve always been into their type of weirdness.”

Casey, who performs under the stage name of The Oxidising Angel – the title of her favourite song by German band Blutengel – admitted to some jitters on her pickling debut. “Lots of my friends and family were in the audience,” she says.

“That made me a bit nervous because it was the first time I have done this type of thing on stage. I would like to do this as a job because it really is a lot of fun but we will have to see what happens after last night.”